Hail, Palo Pinto
- When
- March 20, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Palo Pinto County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 32.930, -98.300
Hail in Texas, March 20, 1978
8 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 8
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Event by event
8 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Cooke
- When
- March 20, 5:40 PM CST
- Where
- Cooke County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 33.650, -97.380
Hail, Camp
- When
- March 20, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Camp County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 32.770, -98.300
Hail, Parker
- When
- March 20, 6:32 PM CST
- Where
- Parker County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 32.700, -97.750
Hail, Hood
- When
- March 20, 7:30 PM CST
- Where
- Hood County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 32.530, -97.630
Hail, Johnson
- When
- March 20, 7:50 PM CST
- Where
- Johnson County
- Measured
- 1.25 in hail
- Coordinates
- 32.530, -97.320
Hail, Parker
- When
- March 20, 8:05 PM CST
- Where
- Parker County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 32.770, -97.900
Hail, Ellis
- When
- March 20, 10:10 PM CST
- Where
- Ellis County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 32.400, -96.850
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10129747, 10129748, 10129749, 10129750, 10129751, 10129752, 10129753, 10129754.